Canada’s first Hyperloop is about to get real as the team from the University of Waterloo will perform its first test on November 1 on their version of Hyperloop called the Waterloop. This is Canada’s only Hyperloop, and the world’s first functional pneumatic one which will debut its unique levitation system next week in Ontario.
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The team also revealed another faster and lighter version of the Hyperloop prototype pod called the GOOSE I, which is under the process of being fabricated.
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Waterloop is designed to be lightweight and quick, currently clocking a speed of 340 miles per hour (550 km/h). This is at least half of what Tesla’s theoretical Hyperloop pods travel, but is still the fastest one in the world.
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Waterloop is just another one of the many Hyperloop efforts after the concept was unveiled and had its blueprints made opensource by Elon Musk in 2013.
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Although Musk is never directly involved in any of the competitions, SpaceX did hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2015, where teams from across the globe test their human-scale pods on the test track built adjacent to SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
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Waterloop is due to be part of that competition, and by the looks of it, it will pose some serious competition.